Cyclone Ului may impact CQ coast

The latest imagery of Cyclone Ului from the Bureau of Meteorology.

TROPICAL Cyclone Ului would most likely impact on the Central Queensland coast sometime during the weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology said this morning.

At 4am today, Ului, Category 4, with central pressure 937 hPa, was located over the north-east Coral Sea about 1240km north-east of Mackay.

The cyclone is moving south at about 4 kilometres per hour.

The bureau says Ului is expected to continue moving in a southerly direction, remaining well offshore, for the next two days.

On Friday the cyclone is expected to turn west-southwest and begin moving closer to the Queensland coast.

On current predictions the most likely scenario is for the cyclone to impact the central Queensland coast sometime during the weekend.